River Action

@riveractionuk.bsky.social

River Action is a UK-based environmental campaigning body committed to rescuing the UK's rivers.

http://www.riveractionuk.com/

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🚨 STOP BIG CHICKEN CHOKING OUR RIVERS

Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy has landed on Netflix, exposing the hidden costs of our obsession with cheap chicken.

Here in the UK, our rivers are already paying the price.

SIGN THE PETITION: bit.ly/4xhkuaz

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@theguardian.comReposted by @riveractionuk.bsky.social

Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies

theguardian.comRevealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companiesExclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants Water companies in the UK made more than £340m in revenue last year by pouring billions of litres of industrial and commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works that experts say are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland. Water companies are required by law to take industrial wastewater and issue permits called “trade-effluent consents” that allow businesses to send it to sewage works, though water companies can refuse applications. Continue reading...
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🧪 The industrial wastewater can contain substances including PFAS and pharmaceuticals. These chemicals enter our waterways and contaminate sewage sludge, which is spread on our land and used to grow our food. 🤢 Yet there is no independent regulator overseeing individual trade-effluent consents. 😕

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We couldn’t have put it better ourselves, Stewart Lee. 🐔💩

We’re calling for an end to the reckless expansion of industrial poultry production and for Big Chicken to take responsibility for the waste it produces.

Got a minute to spare? Make it count. Sign our Big Chicken petition 👉 bit.ly/4xhkuaz

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MORE CHICKEN. SAME OLD SH💩T. The Government wants to expand intensive poultry farming. Their plan for all the extra waste? Good question.. 🤔 So we’ve been outside on the streets with a simple message: 📢 Serious about cleaning up our rivers? STOP the expansion of Big Chicken.

@lcefuk.bsky.socialReposted by @riveractionuk.bsky.social

Our panel on public ownership of the water industry has just kicked off - join us and @GoodGrowthFdn.bsky.social to unpack the options! We're expecting heated debate over this issue.

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2/3. The Prime Minister has a choice: prop up the same failed system – or use Special Administration to create the space for real change. A chance to rebuild Thames Water to serve customers and protect our rivers – not private financial interests.

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1/3. For years, Thames Water has been feeding a very greedy tiger. Billions in debt. Ageing infrastructure starved of investment. Failing pipes. Polluted rivers. But the next chapter of the story doesn't have to be with more of the same. 🧵

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🚨 Reservoirs are drying up. Farmers are warning of food shortages. But at least the golf courses are green..

We need to get our priorities straight: essential public supplies, sustainable food production & healthy rivers MUST come before non-essential uses. 🔽 🔽

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comOne in 12 golf clubs in England broke water extraction rules in past five yearsMore than 140 clubs breached licences, with a third caught taking water illegally, analysis shows – but no fines issued
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Sustain joins call led by @riveractionuk.bsky.social to reject further expansion of industrial poultry farming and support a more sustainable future for the sector.

www.sustainweb.org/news/sep26-g...

sustainweb.orgGovernment urged to rethink growth plan for industrial poultry farming | SustainSustain joins call led by River Action to reject further expansion of industrial poultry farming and use the forthcoming Poultry Sector Growth Plan to support a more sustainable future for the sector.
@plasticfreenwleeds.bsky.socialReposted by @riveractionuk.bsky.social

My new article, please do share it’s damning on Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency #DirtyBusiness #SewageCrisis #pollution

Yorkshire Bylines@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Yorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account? Environment Agency disclosures reveal low attendance at reported pollution incidents and sharp changes between initial and final assessments, intensifying questions about oversight and accountability By Kirsty Tucker

yorkshirebylines.co.ukYorkshire’s dirty business: will the region’s mayors hold polluters to account?Environment Agency disclosures reveal low attendance at reported pollution incidents and sharp changes between initial and final assessments, intensifying questions about oversight and accountability
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📢 FINAL CALL! This week @sascampaigns.bsky.social are taking the voices of over 330,00 people directly to No.10 and calling on Andy Burnham to end the #sewagescandal.

The public are watching – it’s now time to deliver. Sign the petition NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

#EndSewagePollution

you.38degrees.org.ukEnd the sewage pollution scandalIt’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage. That’s why more than 319,000 of us have signed the petition demanding an end to the sewage scandal. We’re...
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